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Chicago examiner vol ix no 31 a m b.ukday sunday price five cents Chicago january 31 1909 hopkins would trade pledges on judgeships for votes negotiates with cook county bosses who cail primary caucus for to-morrow busse and deneen aid nine circuit bench seats as bait for support in sena torship fight election months ahead auroran says he expects har mony to follow meeting called by owners senator albert j hopkins has demanded of the owners association that they use nom inations for circuit judgeships of cook county as a bait to catch votes for him in the legislature and apparently the local owners have consented to that course at any rate they have called a meeting of the Chicago branch of the association for to-morrow to frame up a slate for the judicial primaries senator hopkins personally believes the judicial caucus will have an im portant bearing upon his fight for re election he said yesterday that he thought a good many local differences would be ironed out at the monday gathering and that thereafter harmony of action by the cook county mem bers of the legislature was looked for wants deadlock continued furthermore the senator said that while he is still confident that be will be re-elect ed eventually he does not expect to get the required majority when balloting by t__e joint assembly begins next tuesday and his friends are preparing to continue the dead-lock another two weeks if they are able to do bo to use the judicial nominations to obtain votes for hopkins is about the last desper ate resprt of the owners the calling of the caucus to frame up the owner slate for such an early date as to-morrow is re garded as conclusive evidence in itself that the purpose of it is to give aid to hopkins the judicial primaries are not to be held until the second tuesday in april and the first day for filing petitions is not until february 12 may be ten berths to promise the judicial ticket offers the opportunity for the giving of lar^e rewards to those Chicago members of the legislature who are now holding out against hopkins if they can be induced to change their votes at the april primary there are to be named republican candidates for fourteen circuit and one superior court judgeships of the fifteen judges whose terms will expire in june but six are republicans so the owners have at their disposal nine caucus recommendations even if they recommend for re-election the present six republican judges and according to the present information one of those six judge brentano of the supreme court is not to be recommended by the caucus if he is not there would be ten caucus recom mendations the owners would have to trade for votes for hopkins it is the common understanding that several of the members of the legisla ture would like to become circuit judges notably senators charles l billings her man h breldt and frank p schmitt of taose three senator billings has voted for hopkins from the beginning of the con test ln springfield and senator breidt has consistently voted against him schmitt changs twice senator schmitt has voted both tot and against ihe auroran he started ont by voting for foss was then delivered to hopkins by governor deneen and james pease and en last wednesday switched tack te fees again the members who desire judicial nomina tions for themselves however are not the cnly ones who might naturally be influ enced by promises ef caucus recommenda tions there to not a Chicago member of the legislature who ls not interested in tha judicial nominations and interested as a politician every one of them may be coasted as certainly having friends who are seeking nominations and friends who will be grateful to members who secure for them the coveted indorsements of the owners caucus the republican judges whose terms will expire in the omin summer are judges john gibbons merritt w plnckney richard 8 tnthill p a smith and george a carpenter of the circuit bench and judge brentano of the superior bench with the possible exception of brentano it ss understood that all of them are to be recommended for renomlnatlon and reelec tion and if the hopkins-owners plan goes through the other nine recommendations of the caucus to be held to-morrow after jessie torrance former Chicago girl is given a divorce in france separation from h a alexander granted on strength of threats of violence in letters special cable to th ezaiainor paris jan 30 the court of toulon has finally disposed of the tangled divorce case of henry addison alexander and his wife jessie torrance macgowan alex ander formerly of Chicago the wife be iug granted a divorce after mts alexander left the villa at hyeres where they lived many years un der the safeguard of blakiston the eng lish solicitor the husoand wrote many furious letters and it was on the strength of threats of physical violence in these that thc toulon court granted the divorce to the wife the court however gave mr alexander permission to reopen the case if he wished to bring evidence from london and paris as to charges be made against mrs alex ander alexander decided not to go on with the case his wif e having paid him 50,000 down and given him a montlilj al lowance of c>o immediately after the decision alexander came to paris where he closed up all con nections and sailed on a french liner for new york where his first wife and chil dren reside mr alexander's first wife was miss green the heiress to an enormous fortune and he was twice married to and divorced from her his friends think a third mar riage not impossible popocatapetl shows signs of eruption mexican volcano after centuries of inaction now threatens trouble mexico jan 30 1t is announced by chief molina of the government geological department that popocatapetl volcano is showing signs of activity and that an eruption may occur this volcano almost overshadows the valley of mexico it has been so long dormant that native indians have carried on sulphur mining ln its crater since the time of the spanish con quest of mexico without interruption . the town of amaeareca is situated at its base and is the outfitting point for tourists and others who make the ascent of the moÂ«n -; tain baby escapes in wreck both parents killed i train plows through a sleighing party in canada st catherines ont jan 30.â€”run ning sixty miles an hour the new vork express on the grand trunk railroad plowed through a sleigh load of people at cranby killing four and injuring several the dead are william wilson and wife and george teeter and wife gordon nel son was frightfully injured and will-prob ' ably die miss lottie teeter was injured seriouslj but will recover the infant child of the teeters was picked up near the tracks after the accident with only a few bruises alabama governor's sons attack editor suit against paper won by executive arouses enmity montgomery ala jan 30 donald and fletcher comer sons of governor b b comer attacked frank p glass editor of the montgomery advertiser on the street to-day and knocked him down feeling over a recent suit of the governor against the paper in which a verdict of one cent was given the governor caused the trou ble holds law will ruin interurban business lowa city la jan 30 colonel w g dows of cedar baplds principal owner of the lowa city _. cedar bapids interurban company declares that the new bill before the house relative to a commercial council with power to invesugate public service corporations will ruin the interurban busi ness in the state of lowa he will go to des moines to use his influence against its passage artist leavitt gives out wife's letters paint your way to fame while i help father wrote bryan's daughter my happiness is yours ruth's health first said note from nebraskan de sertion ground for suit special cable to tha examiner paris jan 30 the divorce suit brought by ruth bryan-leavitt is based on the grounds of desertion and non-support and while the artist hubband homer leavitt whom she is suing refuses to discuss the ease tn detail he has submitted the fol lowing letters from mrs leavitt as a re markable series of documents in the ease the first of the interesting series which all told make a trunkful ln mr leavltt's studio here is addressed to the husband from lincoln on july 19 1908 it reads dear peter lt is strange that yon offer in one letter to do anything i wish and in the next lay down a line of duty for me to follow i have to do what 1 think beet to do and there are other considerations mother needs me very much and i am glad to be able to help her for she has three very hard months before her i am going to remain here to help her with her mail por the time being it is my highest duty to take all the care i can off her shoulders will send new photograph i have had some new photos made and will send you one when finished sorry you were annoyed by that newspaper investigation of our affairs out here nothing will start from this end i can assure you and if you carry out your summer plans as arranged no one can comment for they are per fectly acceptable in march of last year and writing from constantinople mrs leavitt says you affirm that you will do anything to ples_6e me and in the very next letter you insist that i shall change my plan for the summer i insist that my way will prevail in this ease i have told you time and again that i wanted a full year to recover my health and to make up my mind about the future you say you will do as i wish and i write you that i wish you to con tinue your work in paris bryan had hand in correspondence that mr bryan had a hand ln this inter esting correspondence is shown by the fol lowing addressed to leavitt on the com moner's letterheads march 15 1908 your favor found on my desk on re turn to city i can appreciate your desire to have the two children for l too am fond of the children but ln ruth's case the first thing to be con sidered is her health yon known she had a narrow escape iast summer but is now improving and i think the mediterranean trip has done her good besides being an advantage in the way of education as you know travel broadens one ruth enjoyed the holy land especially i do not know what plans she has for the summer i shall urge her to con serve her health until entirely well nothing else is to be thought of i will write you about the plans ae soon as i consult ruth i am glad yonr mother is with you i was prompt to correct the rumor about the separation but i had not heard the reports about yourself of witch you speak yours truly w j bryan anything for father's interests in another letter dated from cairo in january of last year mrs bryan-leavitt writes ber husband my dear peter at last in egypt to find your letters awaiting me at the bank i want to tbank you for looking at the convention delegateship as you did i haven't heard if i have been ap pointed except in the paper but any thing for father's interests is what both you and i would do but for the next few mouths i think you can help yourself and others by making the moÃŸt of your work my advice is to peg away make good do your big picture and i will do all in the way of quiet influence to help father but you take this chance make the most of your chance while you are young also don't buy furniture or anything else for a house in paris use your money for your materials and models for this year lt is yonr chance to do something fine and something that will be more lasting than louis quinze furniture no matter how pretty that is cannot join him in england â€¢ i don't think the idea of joining you in england this year is possible for my year of comfort travel and recupera tion does not expire until the fall and i think if i stay at fairview lincoln next summer i can do a great deal to help papa especially if we are to be in another campaign this year if you and i go to denver together or any other american city there will be much unpleasant notoriety but if i continue my travel and only visit at fairview there can be only one place where unkind papers can be curious as yon say what ls my happiness is ours and i answer that my desire is o do what is best for you and me and for papa's chances roth worried over convention gossip another letter to dear peter from mrs leavitt at cairo dated january 30 reads lt is very painful to me that the pa pers have so much to say abont us i will not nominate father for the presi dency i will not make a speech ln the convention and probably all this talk ing in the press means that i will not even be a delegate a little more worry of this sort and i will be back where i was last spring but 1 shall not endanger my health again by accepting other than the easiest course with mother and a good nurse for the babies and i shall not i nor should you expect me to shorten ',;;*â– *.-Â»-'*â– â€¢ i j t--i 7 re â– *"'â– '. v the president of the republic of cuba to william randolph hearst special cable to the examiner wj avana jan 30 the restora tion of the cuban government â– â– has been greeted by the whole country with great enthusiasm all feel satisfied and all are full of hope in president gomez's policy the president is called by liberals and conservatives unanimously and es pecially by spanish people who have property interests in cuba he re storer of the republic in every city and town there have been rejoicing and festivities and the national flag has been flown wide in these festivities every social political and economical party has taken part manifesting a great and sincere enthu siasm and faith in a prosperous future for the country under self government very significant have been the words in the multitude of telegrams of con gratulation that have been received by the government terming the new administration the first one freely elected by the cuban people the government of general gomez is composed of cubans of tested patriotism the president and his cabinet are planning great economies in respect to the public administration so as to re lieve the financial situation without asking for any new loan and without increasing the taxation they want to give the country a government sober modest and at the same time one that shall be a protector of labor as well as capital and of private prop â– erty of every sort industrial and com mercial the president is thoroughly satis fled with the outlook he is working very hard devoting more than four teen hours a day to the arduous duties of the public service he himself ap proves everything relating to the or ganization of the departments founded by the intervention of the americans we are anxious to imitate him in his laudable aims his example gives us strength to overcome the many dif ficulties that beset first steps all those who are around him are very grateful to that great american theodore roosevelt the great friend of the cuban people to the american people themselves and to the ameri can press especially to that part of it which like the hearst newspapers has always energeticaly supported the cuban people in defense of their ideal of independence attest j i_org castellano secretary to the president ksasf sa*/f2t 4#o&*#7!>&mtt7 tribute to hearst newspapers on cuba's first birthday by her first president extract from special cable proclamation of president palma of the first republic of cuba by tomas estrada palma president havana may 19 1902 it was my regret not to be able to call upon mr hearst before i left new york for cuba and thank him for the efforts of the hearst newspapers in behalf of cuban liberty the hearst newspapers were one of the most important factors in the achievement of our - independence they did not fail a day to fight for oiir cause and 1 do not believe that we would have secured our independence without the aid which they rendered bride-to-be says she is hypnotized Chicago girl in critical con dition declares man on train cast spell over her aujentows pa jan 30,â€”allentown's doctors never had a stranger patient than miss alice gerber of 445 marshfield ave nue Chicago who is here bordering on catalepsy at the home of dr william h grelss in her lucid moments miss gerber says she waa hypnotised by a man on the pennsylvania limited on january 20 while on her way from Chicago to boston to marry charles burnett of the wholesale leather firm of earl & burnett according to her schedule she stopped off at allentown to visit her brother mor ris gerber becoming the guest of his fiancee miss fannie cohen as mr ger ber his sister and his fiancee were waiting for a car home after attending a theater last night miss gerber was seized on the street with a severe attack of hysteria after he had attended her in a drug store for an hour dr grelss had her re moved to his home since then rational periods have alternated with attacks of hysteria that at times approached mania stertorous breathing and spasms of rigid ity accompany her hysterical outbreaks in her rational moments miss gerber says a man on the train who she declared to be charles mccollum of 432 west fortieth street new tork annoyed her and finally after getting her life story hypnotized her she says mccollum told her she would re main hypnotized until monday afternoon and ln the meantime she must recite cer tain incoherent phrases which she has done hundreds of times the girl is twenty-three years old and ls strikingly handsome since the death of her parents she has lived with an aunt in Chicago a brother in georgia and a sister ln florida miss gerber was not mistreated her condition to-night is such that it is impos sible to tell when she may be able to pro ceed to boston where the wedding ls to take place at the home of mr burnett's mother in doxboro thief goes 250 miles to beg admission to jail judge lindsey tells how juvenile court helps to reform youths new yobk jan 30 judge ben b lindsey of the children's court of denver spoke at the city club luncheon to-day on the city and the children - ' to the women of colorado he gave the credit for all the legislation for the protection of children in that state i've taken a young thief nineteen yeara old one that no one policeman would agree to land in buena vista prison alone after an argument i gave him 12 to buy a ticket he traveled 250 miles and walked to where a man was walking the wall to prevent the escape of prisoner's and call to the man to open ihe gate and let him serve his sentence of 306 sent to prison we lost none in that __- bill to split poland fourth time approved province with 725.000 to be taken and attached to russia proper st petersburg jan 30 a bill for the so-called fourth partition of poland which separates from poland about one third of the provinces of lublin and siedlce to form the new province of chelm which is to be attached to russia proper has been approved by the cabinet and will be submitted to the duma after ihe present recess the proposed province will have a population of 725,000 and contains a large proportion of members of the rus sian orthodox church who have long chafed under polish domiuation these churchmen have an eloquent advocate in the duma in evlogius the orthodox bishop of chelm the orthodox population of his bishopric amounts to 461,000 and resides mostly in the proposed province the measure will be met with violent opposi tion from the poles but there is reason to believe that it will pass earns his freedom by getting married in jail eau claire citizens raise bail for prisoner awaiting trial bau claire wis jan 30 frank la tour who has been in jail for the last four months awaiting trial on a charge of highway robbery was released when thc necessary bail of 500 was raised la tour was married while in jail and this has resulted in considerable sentiment ia his behalf those who made up the bail are among eau claire's wealthiest citizens la tour is one of a trio charged with having taken 6 from albert unless of durand the brother has been sent to the green bay reformatory and william bay the third member has confessed mrs henry w Taft visitor in budapest if stay is prolonged she will be pre sented to the emperor budapest hungary jan so mrs henry w Taft sister-in-law of president elect Taft accompanied by her daughter arrived here to-day from constantinople they were met here by ambassador fran cis who escorted them to call upon pre mier wekerle and xi justb speaker of the diet they will leave here late to-day for vienna in case their stay in austria hungary is prolonged they will be pre sented to emperor francis joseph at the next court ball fight sanitary district joliet 111 jan 30 property owners are preparing to organize to fight any at tempt by the sanitary district board of Chicago to extend a channel through their city to obtain possession of water ipower fires drive scores into the streets flames break out ail over ! city doing great damage to property 1 one of the most spectacular flies that chi ] cago firemen have battled with for several weeks broke out late yesterday afternoon lu the five-story brick building occupied ' by the gaudiano paper stock company 2so-232 west taylor street the fire , which spread with great rapidity drove several families occupying bouses in the vicinity into the street when the first detachment of firemen ar rived the upper portion of the building was a mass of flames a 4-11 alarm was sounded and was quickly followed by calls for additional forces the work of reducing the conflagration was greatly handicapped by the crowds that gathered and by the intense cold which froze the streams of water almost as soon as tbey touched the buildings finding it hopeless to save the burning structure the firemen finally gave their attention to saving the adjoining build ings panic among employes the flames were discovered shortly after s o'clock in the afternoon and a panic en sued among the employes all of whom however reached the street ln safety several girls fainted and were rescued ' from the fire and the dense volumes of i smoke which had formed by detectives mcsbane and egan the flames were with difficulty confined to the paper company's building after about two hours of desperate fighting tie â€¢ emoke from the burning paper added to the discomfort of the firemen who were al ready burdened with ice the property loss is estimated to be be tween 60,000 and 70,000 charge italian with arson joseph lasethi an italian is being sought by detectives of pire attorney hogan's office on suspicion of having set fire to his shoe store at 191 division street early the morning of january 22 the , italian his wife and their two children â€¢ were found to have disappeared when in ' vestigation was made following the blaze frank kucarzewski owner of a cigar . store at lis west division street was l questioned by fire attorney hogan yester day concerning the cause of a fire that partly . destroyed the building a week ago the loss was 600 the fire attorney says kucarzewski carried 1,000 insurance i an overheated stove caused a fire at 148 towuseud street early yesterday morning ', and eight italians overcome by smoke ; were rescued by lieutenant james do ' herty and policemen gary and mullane of the Chicago avenue station the bulld - ing ls a two-story frame structure and , the loss is about 500 fire starting from sparks from an elec tric fan in the basement threatened for a time to consume a three-story brick struc ture at halsted and west madison streets shortly after s o'clock yesterday morning firemen succeeded in extinguishing the flames however before a large loss was suffered eighteen girls became panic-stricken and fled partly attired to the street at 10 o'clock yesterday morning when fire at tacked the eleanor club xo 1 at 5658 wabash avenue none of the girls were injured the loss wns estimated at 1,000 by the firemen the club is j^iome for working girls and the uppe^^kr were ruined the un '-"_____! i stories _______â– ___*. a^m thomas estrada palma streetrville is invaded by 85,000 flat building â– mrs mary bigot of paris erects structure in heart of land claimed by state _% i declares title is legau ' campaign by millionaires to make disputed tract res dence district seen streeter to resume war captain whose followers killed man in raid still insists he is owner ( t Â£â– â– * treeterville mada^^h mous by the claims of fl mj tain george welltnfl streeter whose nebulous land tfl have imbued scores of people wlth^j greed of possession leading to loss ofl life time and money has beta iiflj vaded again 1 fl this time the invader is an 85.-fl 000 flat building which is now almost ready for occupancy on a plot of i ground in the heart of the disputed fl territory this building apparently is fl the opening wedge of a campaign i>_t which the millionaire claimants of thflÃŸ land lying in the district of lake j michigan hope to transform dreary wastes into a fashionable resi dence district mrs mary bigot a wealthy widow who resides in paris and who is the daughter of the late g p a healy famous painter of portraits is the fifst , daring claimant of the disputed land ' to build a substantial building within its borders told that title is legal mrs bigot has been advised that her title is legal but the majority of the best informed lawyers in Chicago declare that the big tract fought for by captain streeter belongs to the state of Illinois and that the governor could at any time set the wheels of the courts to turning and eecttt pos session of this made land which has a value estimated in the millions mrs bigot's invading flat building to situated at chestnut street a few hundred feet east of lincoln park boulevard it ls directly back of the residence of potter palmer the palmer estate to a large claimant of land ln streeterville she building contains twelve apartments aad the desirability of its location to atteeteft by the fact that while the building is got fully completed every apartment except one is rented the titles to tracts ln the district which are held by many wealthy chicagoans date back to 1391 when the uncoln park commissioners ceded a strip of land lying west of the lake shore drive to the own ers of abutting property along the drive way on their agreeing to continue the driveway and put in a sea wall to protect it in this way j v farwell potter palmer general newberry the ogden and a number of other north shore ce dents came into titles for the lan-9 streeter may renew war however the holding of titles in street erville has resulted in continuous litiga tion everybody interested in the land has claimed and many of thein are still claiming that the titles held by the others are worthless and that they have the only legal titles captain george wellington streeter with his title by right of dto covery was for years a thorn in the flesh of the lincoln park title holders and the contain still threatens to break out at any time and lead another smatf army intu the disputed territory captain streeter is declared by many good lawyers to have the strongest title to the land but bis rnaiu asset in titles was his fighting spirit and indomitable energy which was only quelled afte be sad been â– sent to joliet prison on a charge of man slaughter the captain with his : " whis kers ever ready rifle and crowd of fok-w ers conducted several warlike into what he called the district _. michigan and for a time wits iu full complete possession of the land watchman killed in raid the killing of a man nameu kirk was employed as a watchman by j v far well in one of the land raids wi streeter's last spectacular battle for hto rights judge declares titles good judge edward osgood brown of the ap pellate court was the attorney for the lincoln park board at the time the lake shore drive property owners were given the title to the valuable land tfcey cow claim judge brown said yesterday the titles given by the lincoln par_j board are good i am speaking now as fl continued on 2d page 2d column 11 weather forecast bm mm Chicago and vicinity fair m f sunday with rising temperature 6tj w * rcsh southeast *- monday increasing ajjr cloudiness and probably snow iwsk a lincoln medal free to school boys and school girls read how to get it in the lincoln edition of the examiner sunday february 7 you will also find in this paper how you may get a free trip to the Taft inauguration at washington march 4th order in advance ! thc supply is limited the sweetheart toilet soap coupon will be found on page two of this section cut it out and secure a cake of fine toilet soap yam i wirws s â€” editobxae 3i jayitit 2 robeign 6 drama s^l v.t classified 7 magazine jÂ£js

Chicago examiner vol ix no 31 a m b.ukday sunday price five cents Chicago january 31 1909 hopkins would trade pledges on judgeships for votes negotiates with cook county bosses who cail primary caucus for to-morrow busse and deneen aid nine circuit bench seats as bait for support in sena torship fight election months ahead auroran says he expects har mony to follow meeting called by owners senator albert j hopkins has demanded of the owners association that they use nom inations for circuit judgeships of cook county as a bait to catch votes for him in the legislature and apparently the local owners have consented to that course at any rate they have called a meeting of the Chicago branch of the association for to-morrow to frame up a slate for the judicial primaries senator hopkins personally believes the judicial caucus will have an im portant bearing upon his fight for re election he said yesterday that he thought a good many local differences would be ironed out at the monday gathering and that thereafter harmony of action by the cook county mem bers of the legislature was looked for wants deadlock continued furthermore the senator said that while he is still confident that be will be re-elect ed eventually he does not expect to get the required majority when balloting by t__e joint assembly begins next tuesday and his friends are preparing to continue the dead-lock another two weeks if they are able to do bo to use the judicial nominations to obtain votes for hopkins is about the last desper ate resprt of the owners the calling of the caucus to frame up the owner slate for such an early date as to-morrow is re garded as conclusive evidence in itself that the purpose of it is to give aid to hopkins the judicial primaries are not to be held until the second tuesday in april and the first day for filing petitions is not until february 12 may be ten berths to promise the judicial ticket offers the opportunity for the giving of lar^e rewards to those Chicago members of the legislature who are now holding out against hopkins if they can be induced to change their votes at the april primary there are to be named republican candidates for fourteen circuit and one superior court judgeships of the fifteen judges whose terms will expire in june but six are republicans so the owners have at their disposal nine caucus recommendations even if they recommend for re-election the present six republican judges and according to the present information one of those six judge brentano of the supreme court is not to be recommended by the caucus if he is not there would be ten caucus recom mendations the owners would have to trade for votes for hopkins it is the common understanding that several of the members of the legisla ture would like to become circuit judges notably senators charles l billings her man h breldt and frank p schmitt of taose three senator billings has voted for hopkins from the beginning of the con test ln springfield and senator breidt has consistently voted against him schmitt changs twice senator schmitt has voted both tot and against ihe auroran he started ont by voting for foss was then delivered to hopkins by governor deneen and james pease and en last wednesday switched tack te fees again the members who desire judicial nomina tions for themselves however are not the cnly ones who might naturally be influ enced by promises ef caucus recommenda tions there to not a Chicago member of the legislature who ls not interested in tha judicial nominations and interested as a politician every one of them may be coasted as certainly having friends who are seeking nominations and friends who will be grateful to members who secure for them the coveted indorsements of the owners caucus the republican judges whose terms will expire in the omin summer are judges john gibbons merritt w plnckney richard 8 tnthill p a smith and george a carpenter of the circuit bench and judge brentano of the superior bench with the possible exception of brentano it ss understood that all of them are to be recommended for renomlnatlon and reelec tion and if the hopkins-owners plan goes through the other nine recommendations of the caucus to be held to-morrow after jessie torrance former Chicago girl is given a divorce in france separation from h a alexander granted on strength of threats of violence in letters special cable to th ezaiainor paris jan 30 the court of toulon has finally disposed of the tangled divorce case of henry addison alexander and his wife jessie torrance macgowan alex ander formerly of Chicago the wife be iug granted a divorce after mts alexander left the villa at hyeres where they lived many years un der the safeguard of blakiston the eng lish solicitor the husoand wrote many furious letters and it was on the strength of threats of physical violence in these that thc toulon court granted the divorce to the wife the court however gave mr alexander permission to reopen the case if he wished to bring evidence from london and paris as to charges be made against mrs alex ander alexander decided not to go on with the case his wif e having paid him 50,000 down and given him a montlilj al lowance of c>o immediately after the decision alexander came to paris where he closed up all con nections and sailed on a french liner for new york where his first wife and chil dren reside mr alexander's first wife was miss green the heiress to an enormous fortune and he was twice married to and divorced from her his friends think a third mar riage not impossible popocatapetl shows signs of eruption mexican volcano after centuries of inaction now threatens trouble mexico jan 30 1t is announced by chief molina of the government geological department that popocatapetl volcano is showing signs of activity and that an eruption may occur this volcano almost overshadows the valley of mexico it has been so long dormant that native indians have carried on sulphur mining ln its crater since the time of the spanish con quest of mexico without interruption . the town of amaeareca is situated at its base and is the outfitting point for tourists and others who make the ascent of the moÂ«n -; tain baby escapes in wreck both parents killed i train plows through a sleighing party in canada st catherines ont jan 30.â€”run ning sixty miles an hour the new vork express on the grand trunk railroad plowed through a sleigh load of people at cranby killing four and injuring several the dead are william wilson and wife and george teeter and wife gordon nel son was frightfully injured and will-prob ' ably die miss lottie teeter was injured seriouslj but will recover the infant child of the teeters was picked up near the tracks after the accident with only a few bruises alabama governor's sons attack editor suit against paper won by executive arouses enmity montgomery ala jan 30 donald and fletcher comer sons of governor b b comer attacked frank p glass editor of the montgomery advertiser on the street to-day and knocked him down feeling over a recent suit of the governor against the paper in which a verdict of one cent was given the governor caused the trou ble holds law will ruin interurban business lowa city la jan 30 colonel w g dows of cedar baplds principal owner of the lowa city _. cedar bapids interurban company declares that the new bill before the house relative to a commercial council with power to invesugate public service corporations will ruin the interurban busi ness in the state of lowa he will go to des moines to use his influence against its passage artist leavitt gives out wife's letters paint your way to fame while i help father wrote bryan's daughter my happiness is yours ruth's health first said note from nebraskan de sertion ground for suit special cable to tha examiner paris jan 30 the divorce suit brought by ruth bryan-leavitt is based on the grounds of desertion and non-support and while the artist hubband homer leavitt whom she is suing refuses to discuss the ease tn detail he has submitted the fol lowing letters from mrs leavitt as a re markable series of documents in the ease the first of the interesting series which all told make a trunkful ln mr leavltt's studio here is addressed to the husband from lincoln on july 19 1908 it reads dear peter lt is strange that yon offer in one letter to do anything i wish and in the next lay down a line of duty for me to follow i have to do what 1 think beet to do and there are other considerations mother needs me very much and i am glad to be able to help her for she has three very hard months before her i am going to remain here to help her with her mail por the time being it is my highest duty to take all the care i can off her shoulders will send new photograph i have had some new photos made and will send you one when finished sorry you were annoyed by that newspaper investigation of our affairs out here nothing will start from this end i can assure you and if you carry out your summer plans as arranged no one can comment for they are per fectly acceptable in march of last year and writing from constantinople mrs leavitt says you affirm that you will do anything to ples_6e me and in the very next letter you insist that i shall change my plan for the summer i insist that my way will prevail in this ease i have told you time and again that i wanted a full year to recover my health and to make up my mind about the future you say you will do as i wish and i write you that i wish you to con tinue your work in paris bryan had hand in correspondence that mr bryan had a hand ln this inter esting correspondence is shown by the fol lowing addressed to leavitt on the com moner's letterheads march 15 1908 your favor found on my desk on re turn to city i can appreciate your desire to have the two children for l too am fond of the children but ln ruth's case the first thing to be con sidered is her health yon known she had a narrow escape iast summer but is now improving and i think the mediterranean trip has done her good besides being an advantage in the way of education as you know travel broadens one ruth enjoyed the holy land especially i do not know what plans she has for the summer i shall urge her to con serve her health until entirely well nothing else is to be thought of i will write you about the plans ae soon as i consult ruth i am glad yonr mother is with you i was prompt to correct the rumor about the separation but i had not heard the reports about yourself of witch you speak yours truly w j bryan anything for father's interests in another letter dated from cairo in january of last year mrs bryan-leavitt writes ber husband my dear peter at last in egypt to find your letters awaiting me at the bank i want to tbank you for looking at the convention delegateship as you did i haven't heard if i have been ap pointed except in the paper but any thing for father's interests is what both you and i would do but for the next few mouths i think you can help yourself and others by making the moÃŸt of your work my advice is to peg away make good do your big picture and i will do all in the way of quiet influence to help father but you take this chance make the most of your chance while you are young also don't buy furniture or anything else for a house in paris use your money for your materials and models for this year lt is yonr chance to do something fine and something that will be more lasting than louis quinze furniture no matter how pretty that is cannot join him in england â€¢ i don't think the idea of joining you in england this year is possible for my year of comfort travel and recupera tion does not expire until the fall and i think if i stay at fairview lincoln next summer i can do a great deal to help papa especially if we are to be in another campaign this year if you and i go to denver together or any other american city there will be much unpleasant notoriety but if i continue my travel and only visit at fairview there can be only one place where unkind papers can be curious as yon say what ls my happiness is ours and i answer that my desire is o do what is best for you and me and for papa's chances roth worried over convention gossip another letter to dear peter from mrs leavitt at cairo dated january 30 reads lt is very painful to me that the pa pers have so much to say abont us i will not nominate father for the presi dency i will not make a speech ln the convention and probably all this talk ing in the press means that i will not even be a delegate a little more worry of this sort and i will be back where i was last spring but 1 shall not endanger my health again by accepting other than the easiest course with mother and a good nurse for the babies and i shall not i nor should you expect me to shorten ',;;*â– *.-Â»-'*â– â€¢ i j t--i 7 re â– *"'â– '. v the president of the republic of cuba to william randolph hearst special cable to the examiner wj avana jan 30 the restora tion of the cuban government â– â– has been greeted by the whole country with great enthusiasm all feel satisfied and all are full of hope in president gomez's policy the president is called by liberals and conservatives unanimously and es pecially by spanish people who have property interests in cuba he re storer of the republic in every city and town there have been rejoicing and festivities and the national flag has been flown wide in these festivities every social political and economical party has taken part manifesting a great and sincere enthu siasm and faith in a prosperous future for the country under self government very significant have been the words in the multitude of telegrams of con gratulation that have been received by the government terming the new administration the first one freely elected by the cuban people the government of general gomez is composed of cubans of tested patriotism the president and his cabinet are planning great economies in respect to the public administration so as to re lieve the financial situation without asking for any new loan and without increasing the taxation they want to give the country a government sober modest and at the same time one that shall be a protector of labor as well as capital and of private prop â– erty of every sort industrial and com mercial the president is thoroughly satis fled with the outlook he is working very hard devoting more than four teen hours a day to the arduous duties of the public service he himself ap proves everything relating to the or ganization of the departments founded by the intervention of the americans we are anxious to imitate him in his laudable aims his example gives us strength to overcome the many dif ficulties that beset first steps all those who are around him are very grateful to that great american theodore roosevelt the great friend of the cuban people to the american people themselves and to the ameri can press especially to that part of it which like the hearst newspapers has always energeticaly supported the cuban people in defense of their ideal of independence attest j i_org castellano secretary to the president ksasf sa*/f2t 4#o&*#7!>&mtt7 tribute to hearst newspapers on cuba's first birthday by her first president extract from special cable proclamation of president palma of the first republic of cuba by tomas estrada palma president havana may 19 1902 it was my regret not to be able to call upon mr hearst before i left new york for cuba and thank him for the efforts of the hearst newspapers in behalf of cuban liberty the hearst newspapers were one of the most important factors in the achievement of our - independence they did not fail a day to fight for oiir cause and 1 do not believe that we would have secured our independence without the aid which they rendered bride-to-be says she is hypnotized Chicago girl in critical con dition declares man on train cast spell over her aujentows pa jan 30,â€”allentown's doctors never had a stranger patient than miss alice gerber of 445 marshfield ave nue Chicago who is here bordering on catalepsy at the home of dr william h grelss in her lucid moments miss gerber says she waa hypnotised by a man on the pennsylvania limited on january 20 while on her way from Chicago to boston to marry charles burnett of the wholesale leather firm of earl & burnett according to her schedule she stopped off at allentown to visit her brother mor ris gerber becoming the guest of his fiancee miss fannie cohen as mr ger ber his sister and his fiancee were waiting for a car home after attending a theater last night miss gerber was seized on the street with a severe attack of hysteria after he had attended her in a drug store for an hour dr grelss had her re moved to his home since then rational periods have alternated with attacks of hysteria that at times approached mania stertorous breathing and spasms of rigid ity accompany her hysterical outbreaks in her rational moments miss gerber says a man on the train who she declared to be charles mccollum of 432 west fortieth street new tork annoyed her and finally after getting her life story hypnotized her she says mccollum told her she would re main hypnotized until monday afternoon and ln the meantime she must recite cer tain incoherent phrases which she has done hundreds of times the girl is twenty-three years old and ls strikingly handsome since the death of her parents she has lived with an aunt in Chicago a brother in georgia and a sister ln florida miss gerber was not mistreated her condition to-night is such that it is impos sible to tell when she may be able to pro ceed to boston where the wedding ls to take place at the home of mr burnett's mother in doxboro thief goes 250 miles to beg admission to jail judge lindsey tells how juvenile court helps to reform youths new yobk jan 30 judge ben b lindsey of the children's court of denver spoke at the city club luncheon to-day on the city and the children - ' to the women of colorado he gave the credit for all the legislation for the protection of children in that state i've taken a young thief nineteen yeara old one that no one policeman would agree to land in buena vista prison alone after an argument i gave him 12 to buy a ticket he traveled 250 miles and walked to where a man was walking the wall to prevent the escape of prisoner's and call to the man to open ihe gate and let him serve his sentence of 306 sent to prison we lost none in that __- bill to split poland fourth time approved province with 725.000 to be taken and attached to russia proper st petersburg jan 30 a bill for the so-called fourth partition of poland which separates from poland about one third of the provinces of lublin and siedlce to form the new province of chelm which is to be attached to russia proper has been approved by the cabinet and will be submitted to the duma after ihe present recess the proposed province will have a population of 725,000 and contains a large proportion of members of the rus sian orthodox church who have long chafed under polish domiuation these churchmen have an eloquent advocate in the duma in evlogius the orthodox bishop of chelm the orthodox population of his bishopric amounts to 461,000 and resides mostly in the proposed province the measure will be met with violent opposi tion from the poles but there is reason to believe that it will pass earns his freedom by getting married in jail eau claire citizens raise bail for prisoner awaiting trial bau claire wis jan 30 frank la tour who has been in jail for the last four months awaiting trial on a charge of highway robbery was released when thc necessary bail of 500 was raised la tour was married while in jail and this has resulted in considerable sentiment ia his behalf those who made up the bail are among eau claire's wealthiest citizens la tour is one of a trio charged with having taken 6 from albert unless of durand the brother has been sent to the green bay reformatory and william bay the third member has confessed mrs henry w Taft visitor in budapest if stay is prolonged she will be pre sented to the emperor budapest hungary jan so mrs henry w Taft sister-in-law of president elect Taft accompanied by her daughter arrived here to-day from constantinople they were met here by ambassador fran cis who escorted them to call upon pre mier wekerle and xi justb speaker of the diet they will leave here late to-day for vienna in case their stay in austria hungary is prolonged they will be pre sented to emperor francis joseph at the next court ball fight sanitary district joliet 111 jan 30 property owners are preparing to organize to fight any at tempt by the sanitary district board of Chicago to extend a channel through their city to obtain possession of water ipower fires drive scores into the streets flames break out ail over ! city doing great damage to property 1 one of the most spectacular flies that chi ] cago firemen have battled with for several weeks broke out late yesterday afternoon lu the five-story brick building occupied ' by the gaudiano paper stock company 2so-232 west taylor street the fire , which spread with great rapidity drove several families occupying bouses in the vicinity into the street when the first detachment of firemen ar rived the upper portion of the building was a mass of flames a 4-11 alarm was sounded and was quickly followed by calls for additional forces the work of reducing the conflagration was greatly handicapped by the crowds that gathered and by the intense cold which froze the streams of water almost as soon as tbey touched the buildings finding it hopeless to save the burning structure the firemen finally gave their attention to saving the adjoining build ings panic among employes the flames were discovered shortly after s o'clock in the afternoon and a panic en sued among the employes all of whom however reached the street ln safety several girls fainted and were rescued ' from the fire and the dense volumes of i smoke which had formed by detectives mcsbane and egan the flames were with difficulty confined to the paper company's building after about two hours of desperate fighting tie â€¢ emoke from the burning paper added to the discomfort of the firemen who were al ready burdened with ice the property loss is estimated to be be tween 60,000 and 70,000 charge italian with arson joseph lasethi an italian is being sought by detectives of pire attorney hogan's office on suspicion of having set fire to his shoe store at 191 division street early the morning of january 22 the , italian his wife and their two children â€¢ were found to have disappeared when in ' vestigation was made following the blaze frank kucarzewski owner of a cigar . store at lis west division street was l questioned by fire attorney hogan yester day concerning the cause of a fire that partly . destroyed the building a week ago the loss was 600 the fire attorney says kucarzewski carried 1,000 insurance i an overheated stove caused a fire at 148 towuseud street early yesterday morning ', and eight italians overcome by smoke ; were rescued by lieutenant james do ' herty and policemen gary and mullane of the Chicago avenue station the bulld - ing ls a two-story frame structure and , the loss is about 500 fire starting from sparks from an elec tric fan in the basement threatened for a time to consume a three-story brick struc ture at halsted and west madison streets shortly after s o'clock yesterday morning firemen succeeded in extinguishing the flames however before a large loss was suffered eighteen girls became panic-stricken and fled partly attired to the street at 10 o'clock yesterday morning when fire at tacked the eleanor club xo 1 at 5658 wabash avenue none of the girls were injured the loss wns estimated at 1,000 by the firemen the club is j^iome for working girls and the uppe^^kr were ruined the un '-"_____! i stories _______â– ___*. a^m thomas estrada palma streetrville is invaded by 85,000 flat building â– mrs mary bigot of paris erects structure in heart of land claimed by state _% i declares title is legau ' campaign by millionaires to make disputed tract res dence district seen streeter to resume war captain whose followers killed man in raid still insists he is owner ( t Â£â– â– * treeterville mada^^h mous by the claims of fl mj tain george welltnfl streeter whose nebulous land tfl have imbued scores of people wlth^j greed of possession leading to loss ofl life time and money has beta iiflj vaded again 1 fl this time the invader is an 85.-fl 000 flat building which is now almost ready for occupancy on a plot of i ground in the heart of the disputed fl territory this building apparently is fl the opening wedge of a campaign i>_t which the millionaire claimants of thflÃŸ land lying in the district of lake j michigan hope to transform dreary wastes into a fashionable resi dence district mrs mary bigot a wealthy widow who resides in paris and who is the daughter of the late g p a healy famous painter of portraits is the fifst , daring claimant of the disputed land ' to build a substantial building within its borders told that title is legal mrs bigot has been advised that her title is legal but the majority of the best informed lawyers in Chicago declare that the big tract fought for by captain streeter belongs to the state of Illinois and that the governor could at any time set the wheels of the courts to turning and eecttt pos session of this made land which has a value estimated in the millions mrs bigot's invading flat building to situated at chestnut street a few hundred feet east of lincoln park boulevard it ls directly back of the residence of potter palmer the palmer estate to a large claimant of land ln streeterville she building contains twelve apartments aad the desirability of its location to atteeteft by the fact that while the building is got fully completed every apartment except one is rented the titles to tracts ln the district which are held by many wealthy chicagoans date back to 1391 when the uncoln park commissioners ceded a strip of land lying west of the lake shore drive to the own ers of abutting property along the drive way on their agreeing to continue the driveway and put in a sea wall to protect it in this way j v farwell potter palmer general newberry the ogden and a number of other north shore ce dents came into titles for the lan-9 streeter may renew war however the holding of titles in street erville has resulted in continuous litiga tion everybody interested in the land has claimed and many of thein are still claiming that the titles held by the others are worthless and that they have the only legal titles captain george wellington streeter with his title by right of dto covery was for years a thorn in the flesh of the lincoln park title holders and the contain still threatens to break out at any time and lead another smatf army intu the disputed territory captain streeter is declared by many good lawyers to have the strongest title to the land but bis rnaiu asset in titles was his fighting spirit and indomitable energy which was only quelled afte be sad been â– sent to joliet prison on a charge of man slaughter the captain with his : " whis kers ever ready rifle and crowd of fok-w ers conducted several warlike into what he called the district _. michigan and for a time wits iu full complete possession of the land watchman killed in raid the killing of a man nameu kirk was employed as a watchman by j v far well in one of the land raids wi streeter's last spectacular battle for hto rights judge declares titles good judge edward osgood brown of the ap pellate court was the attorney for the lincoln park board at the time the lake shore drive property owners were given the title to the valuable land tfcey cow claim judge brown said yesterday the titles given by the lincoln par_j board are good i am speaking now as fl continued on 2d page 2d column 11 weather forecast bm mm Chicago and vicinity fair m f sunday with rising temperature 6tj w * rcsh southeast *- monday increasing ajjr cloudiness and probably snow iwsk a lincoln medal free to school boys and school girls read how to get it in the lincoln edition of the examiner sunday february 7 you will also find in this paper how you may get a free trip to the Taft inauguration at washington march 4th order in advance ! thc supply is limited the sweetheart toilet soap coupon will be found on page two of this section cut it out and secure a cake of fine toilet soap yam i wirws s â€” editobxae 3i jayitit 2 robeign 6 drama s^l v.t classified 7 magazine jÂ£js